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...after day, the warships streamed out of Soviet naval bases on the Baltic and Arctic coasts. Among them were brand-new guided-missile destroyers, missile submarines and, most impressive of all, the 28,000-ton nuclear-powered battle cruiser Kirov. By midweek the hastily assembled battle fleet spanned a vast expanse of ocean, from the waters off Greenland, across to the Shetland Islands, northeast to the fringes of Scandinavia and as far as the glacial Barents Sea. In the air, Soviet antisubmarine and strike aircraft flew almost continuous missions over,the Norwegian Sea. Backfire bombers, reputed to be the Soviets...
Last year, Harvard dropped a 6-3 decision to the Jumbos at Soldiers Field. The game was for the GBL title, but for Harvard, the game was just a midweek tuneup between two rugged weekends of EIBL play...
...point, the Administration did at last get its policy straight. Though Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger initially said the Marines' withdrawal might take four months, Reagan in a report to Congress at midweek set "a tentative goal of completion within 30 days." The Marines, he explained candidly, "have become a target in an area that is no longer under [Lebanese] government control." At week's end Weinberger presented to the White House a specific timetable, which Reagan approved, and the pullout was set to be completed by March...
Some of the cut-rate deals are impressive: TWA has a Kids Fly Free program on its New York-to-Denver run, and it throws in a free rental car to Steamboat Springs when parents pay the $652 fare for two roundtrip, midweek tickets. Steamboat gives children under twelve free lodging, rental equipment and lift tickets. Still, the cost for two parents and two children spending seven nights at Steamboat comes to the kind of money most families go to the bank for: $2,144, not including meals or drinks, or the pur chase of any equipment. What...
Most of the subzero zone, which stretched from the Rockies east to the Alleghenies, began to warm up just after Christmas, prompting an epidemic of jokes about 15° "heat waves." Midweek, however, the bitter cold snapped back down the country's spine, setting records in cities such as Casper, Wyo. (-26°), Denver (15°) and Amarillo, Texas (-5°). Nor was the worst over for much of the Deep South. Tornadoes roared through Georgia and Florida on Thursday...